Old photos of Bootle

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your good eyesight Paul,

[fatboyjoe90]

Mrs, Kelly, the shopkeeper, in Kelly’s Home made bread shop in Knowsley Road Bootle.

[fatboyjoe90]

Church Road Litherland, before 1974.

[fatboyjoe90]

Old photo of Marsh Lane, 1950s on the left you can see the old coal sidings.

[BOBHAMO]

Great photo Joe
bobhamo

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for that Bob.

[BOBHAMO]

Joe it's good to see a new photo
It's hard to find one which is not published before
Bobhamo

[fatboyjoe90]

Hope Matt, can see this old photo.
The building that is painted brown was the doctors surgery doctor Jones and Dr Weatherhead, then later doctor Davies.
On, on the left of shop next to Hooton Place was Blackledges bread and cake shop on the corner of Chestnut Grove and Marsh Lane, you can see a glimpse of St James senior girls school.

[Matt]

Thanks for the photo Joe.I only ever met Dr Jones a few times.My uncle Dr John Wethered was originally a surgeon at Walton hospital but I guess the second world War caught up with him and he just could not handle the sight of lots of blood so he became a GP after serving in the RAMC in India during WW2.
Little story....When he became the junior partner of Dr Jones an elderly man came into the surgery and asked my uncle John if he was related to Jack Wethered the wool clipper captain.Uncle John said yes ,he was my grandfather(my great grandfather)With that answer the old feller stormed out of the room and told my uncle that no son of a b....h relation of Black Jack Wethered would ever lay a hand on him.Seems he was quite a hard captain to sail with and in fact once his whole crew jumped ship in Australia .
Thanks again Joe.
Matt

[IanA]

Worn lino on the floor, wooden benches around the walls - you walked in, eyeballed the folks there before you, and waited your turn. Every whisper said in the surgery could be heard in the waiting room - no secrets. In to see Dr Wethered and there was a small gas fire hissing away competing with Dr Wethered's laboured breathing. No nonsense - if you were being silly, you got shouted at. Primitive conditions but devoted care, no refusal for a home visit and you didn't have to arm wrestle the receptionist (there wasn't one) to get in. Not sure things have improved all that much in 70 years.

It's a long time since I saw that surgery. Nice to see the old place again and thanks for putting it up.

[fatboyjoe90]

Coal sidings on marsh lane, it looks like the girl from the other photo, outside the doctor’s surgery.

[fatboyjoe90]

Worn lino on the floor, wooden benches around the walls - you walked in, eyeballed the folks there before you, and waited your turn. Every whisper said in the surgery could be heard in the waiting room - no secrets. In to see Dr Wethered and there was a small gas fire hissing away competing with Dr Wethered's laboured breathing. No nonsense - if you were being silly, you got shouted at. Primitive conditions but devoted care, no refusal for a home visit and you didn't have to arm wrestle the receptionist (there wasn't one) to get in. Not sure things have improved all that much in 70 years.

It's a long time since I saw that surgery. Nice to see the old place again and thanks for putting it up.

My pleasure Ian.

[Gardner 180]

I found this picture of a Commer lorry in Sandhills Lane on the TrucknetUK Forum.
I expect it is from the 1960s or early 1970s. I still have not sussed out how to send pictures
in a decent size.

Ray.

[Bonesy]

capital bank locations

[Gardner 180]

Thank you Bonesy for enlarging the picture. Ray.

[fatboyjoe90]

Great photo Ray. Unfortunately it's not Bootle, it's Sandhills Lane, Liverpool, L5 9XN.

[filsgreen]

We have to maintain standards, Joe.

[Gardner 180]

Thank you for your comments Joe & fils. It is a long time ago since I was in Bootle and Liverpool.
I emigrated to the Peoples Republic of Wigan 56 years ago. Best regards, Ray.

[jimmyx3]

The Muncaster Arms, Bootle in the early 1900s.

I used to live three doors from the left of the barber's shop in the 1950s.

For sale on Ebay if anyone is interested, Muncaster Theatre drinking mug.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314108670395

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for that link Jimmy.

[fatboyjoe90]

We have to maintain standards, Joe.

We sure do Phil.

[fatboyjoe90]

Old Haymarket, Bus terminus Liverpool, 1960s.

[Silver-Haired-Hippy]

Hardly seems that long ago Joe!

Loretta

[efc46]

again joe i went down memory lane

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for your comments, Loretta and Davey.

[fatboyjoe90]

Marian Square, Netherton 1960s.

[fatboyjoe90]

Not Bootle, but not that far away. James Street Liverpool 1955.

[Silver-Haired-Hippy]

Great photo Joe

Loretta

[Gardner 180]

Not Bootle, but not that far away. James Street Liverpool 1955.

What a great picture Joe. The lorry on the right looks like a Bedford, the cream lorry near the tram is a Ford Thames.
The Corporation tram is on route 40 to Page Moss. The two cars near the tram are Ford 100E Anglia or Prefect.
The black car on the left is a Rover, and the Corporation bus is an AEC from the late 1940s. Cheers, Ray.

[Bonesy]

Yet another cracking photo.


Keith

[fatboyjoe90]

Yet another cracking photo.


Keith

Thanks for that Keith.

[fatboyjoe90]

Collie bingo social club Linacre Road Litherland.

[fatboyjoe90]

Great photo Joe

Thanks for that Loretta.

[BOBHAMO]

Great colour photo Joe
Bobhamo

[fatboyjoe90]

Thanks for that Bob.